Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios. Poly9 in Canada, and C3 Technologies in Sweden that are bringing in new skills.

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The gap between Hyperloop and the state of infrastructure in the vast majority of developing countries is a demonstration of what economist William Janeway calls the Two Innovation Economies. The frontier economy has unimaginable appeal to the skilled engineers and savvy entrepreneurs.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Because business is fraught with many risks and challenges, and because this journey isn’t right for everyone, I’ve developed some questions that will help you get more clarity so you can make better decisions for yourself when it comes to starting a business. How many moments of your life are you willing to trade for money? * * *.

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Leaders need to focus on how to create meaningful targets that use the best of each approach. Consider the case of an Asian telecommunications company that found 20 percent of its marketing budget was being squandered in markets with the lowest lifetime customer value. Collaborate around the customer decision journey.

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Here a few notable examples. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. That''s not right. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Here are three strategies larger companies use to bring scrappy, entrepreneurial know-how into their established businesses. Each can be used to complement your predictive skills, giving you a new edge against rivals that rely mainly on number-crunching: Redirect conversations toward genuine competency.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’re giving them a fish, but you aren’t teaching your people how to fish. Ask your team members to start developing the skill of managing their inner critics. The goal you want to them to work toward is not unfailing confidence, but rather, more skillful management of their own limiting beliefs and self-doubts.

Mentor 8

Mentor Telecommunications Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. During the annual sales-planning process, managers determine how to invest resources to capture anticipated demand. Align sales coverage with opportunity.

B2B 14

B2B Chemicals Analysis B2C 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

On this very site, for example, several authors have published research-based blog posts on how managers can create the conditions that support meaningful work. This is a very positive development, because work is a huge part of life, and meaning in life is not just a "nice-to-have". We need it in the way we need oxygen.

Call Center 12

Call Center Telecommunications Stress Film 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

According to Selling Power magazine, the largest companies in America selling products such as computer and office equipment, consumable goods, insurance, telecommunications, and financial services, each employ tens of thousands of salespeople. Leaders invested to develop better measures of customer potential. times the estimated $169.5

Short-term 8

Short-term Telecommunications Advertising Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The CEO sitting across from me is explaining how he and the other executives of a telecommunications firm were caught off guard by a new technology that disrupted the firm’s business. He wants to increase his capacity to learn, to spot and understand developments inside and outside of the firm. What is Learning Agility?

Agility 8

Agility Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. Comments The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises (Larry Prusak, Brook Manville, and Tom Davenport are at work on a book on judgment and how to cultivate it as an organizational, not just individual, strength.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He did not, from my point of view, have the skills to run the big company that we had produced. How can a company avoid Citigroups misstep and establish beforehand whether the CEO has the aptitude to lead process improvement? But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. ” CEOs also worried about whether their high potential employees were being properly developed. One area that proved especially challenging was mobility.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

What are your special skills — digital marketing know-how you learned in fast-moving consumer goods? Or is it your knowledge of how to work with regulators in highly regulated industries? Next, candidly evaluate how you compare with other executives, based on your proven track record. Collaborating. Earning trust.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The emergence of a large entrepreneurial community is essential for the development and growth of any country. VC fund managers in Mexico are still learning how to achieve trust with our investors, the limited partners (LPs). In the U.S., In Latin America, on the other hand, the VC industry is still nascent. Fundraising side.

Industry 9

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 9